Gilbert, John R.; Moler, Cleve; Schreiber, Robert Sparse matrices in MATLAB: Design and implementation. (English) Zbl 0752.65037 SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 13, No. 1, 333-356 (1992). MATLAB is an interactive environment and programming language for numerical computation. This paper describes the addition of sparse matrix storage and operations to MATLAB. This has not added any new functionality but has made existing programs more efficient in terms of storage and time.The authors concentrate on elementary sparse matrix operations, such as addition and multiplication, and on direct methods for solving sparse linear systems. A variety of examples showing the advantages of the new enhancement are given. Reviewer: R.P.Tewarson (Stony Brook) Cited in 47 Documents MSC: 65F50 Computational methods for sparse matrices 65F05 Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion 15-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to linear algebra 68R10 Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science 68N15 Theory of programming languages Keywords:mathematical software; matrix addition; matrix multiplication; MATLAB; sparse matrix; direct methods; sparse linear systems Software:symrcm; Matlab PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. R. Gilbert} et al., SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 13, No. 1, 333--356 (1992; Zbl 0752.65037) Full Text: DOI